Structural component for a motor vehicle
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsPhilipp BRONSWICK, Sven KUHLMANN
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Abstract
A structural component for a motor vehicle, with a component body (2) made from a sheet, which includes at least one shell-shaped body portion (3) formed from the sheet and at least one receiving bush (6) formed from the sheet that extends along its circumference between first and second circumferential ends (4, 5), which at the first circumferential end (4) merges into the shell-shaped body portion (3) and at the second circumferential end (5) merges into a strengthening strip (7) formed from the sheet and attached to the shell-shaped body portion (3). The strengthening strip (7) completes the shell-shaped body portion (3) to form an at least partially closed hollow section (8).
Claims19
1-15. (canceled)
A structural component for a motor vehicle, the structural component comprising:
- a component body (2) being made from a sheet, which comprises at least one shell-shaped body portion (3) formed from the sheet and at least one receiving bush (6) formed from the sheet that extends along its circumference between first and second circumferential ends (4, 5), which mergers, at the first circumferential end (4), into the shell-shaped body portion (3) and mergers, at the second circumferential end (5), into a strengthening strip (7) formed from the sheet and attached to the shell-shaped body portion (3), and
- the strengthening strip (7) at least partially completes the shell-shaped body portion (3) to form a closed hollow section (8).
A method of producing a structural component (1) for a motor vehicle, which component comprises a component body (2), the method comprising:
- forming the component body (2) by deforming a sheet into a blank (30) having at least one shell-shaped body portion (3);
- deforming at least one intermediate area (31) of the blank (30) connected with the body portion (3) to produce a receiving bush (6);
- attaching an end area (32) of the blank (30), connected to the intermediate area (31), to the shell-shaped body portion (3) so as to form a strengthening strip (7);
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- attaching the end area (32) of the blank (30) to the shell-shaped body portion (3) in such manner that the strengthening strip (7) completes the shell-shaped body portion (3) at least partially to form a closed hollow section (8).
A structural component for a motor vehicle, the structural component comprising:
- a component body extending in a longitudinal direction and being made from a metallic sheet, the component body comprising at least one shell-shaped body portion, at least one receiving bush and a strengthening strip which are each formed from the metallic sheet,
- a first longitudinal end of the shell-shaped body portion merging into a first circumferential end of the receiving bush and a longitudinal end of the strengthening strip merges into a second circumferential end of the receiving bush,
- the receiving bush being cylindrical and defining an axis that is normal to the longitudinal direction, and
- the strengthening strip and the shell-shaped body portion being fixed to one another to form a closed hollow section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.